It's time for state government to handle its own IT projects

It was reported in the April 27 Tennessean that Tennessee Department of Human Services officials are halting work on a multimillion-dollar computer project, Vision IntegratonPlatform, after seven years of missed deadlines and design defects.

The project, contracted out to a software developer, started in 2005 and was to finish in 2009. The total cost to date is just under $20 million. The department will continue using its 20-year-old software.

Other departments, typically involving outside contractors, were having trouble with their large-scale technology projects: Children's Services, Revenue and Labor and Workforce Development. The state also had problems creating its Project Edison payroll system.

So if the state is having so many problems implementing massive technology projects using outside contractors, why would they now choose to hire another outside consulting firm to evaluate state information-technology employees? Go figure!

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It's time for state government to handle its own IT projects

It was reported in the April 27 Tennessean that Tennessee Department of Human Services officials are halting work on a multimillion-dollar computer project, Vision IntegratonPlatform, after seven